I made a comment right back at the start about how a better indicator of a player’s season effectiveness would give greater weight to players who perform well in games where we win, and less weight to players who pick up low-end Nobby votes on the strength of very few votes in shockers.

There are a couple of ways of doing this but I thought I’d try just summing up raw votes. Lots more people give votes in good performances than for instance last week vs the Weagles.

Up to and including this current week, Heppell just leads from Merrett

I think the voting totals are also indicative of our inconsistency this year.
Not merely the team, but also individual players.

A rough scan is that only Smith(injury), Zlarke MacNiece Ham & Ridley have played this year without getting votes.
I’m assuming Smack gets votes this week
Could be wrong- feel free to check.

You might say that’s a good thing, but I’d be happier if about 10 blokes were sharing the bulk of bests, and 3 or 4 bobbed up with an occasional top 5 performance.
Instead I think there’s a real inconsistency outside the leading half dozen- some strong performances interspersed with falling right off.

You might say that’s a good thing, but I’d be happier if about 10 blokes were sharing the bulk of bests, and 3 or 4 bobbed up with an occasional top 5 performance.
Instead I think there’s a real inconsistency outside the leading half dozen- some strong performances interspersed with falling right off.

Whilst not completely disagreeing with this, another way to look at could be the more players getting recognition/votes means a more consistent team, less real stars to be tagged/stopped and all players a bit better, which is probably better.

But you are grumpy at a voter being a ■■■■■ and not being able to make up their minds and going for half votes. Then poor AN10 has to count the ■■■■■■ things. But that isn’t what happened (well it does, but not in this case).

The votes above are the cumulative results. So at some stage at the end of a rounds counting, AN10 has had a couple of players on the same number of votes for the 1 point and thought, bugger it, they can have half a point each.

Anyway, the only reason I tried to clear that up is to say well done to AN10, and keep up the good work in what is a pretty thankless task.